Jian (sword breaker)
The jian (
hollow ground) cross section with sharp corners, making it ideal to focus on damaging other weapons with brutal impact.[2][3]
Some variants end with a sharp tip. It was occasionally used as a throwing weapon, which gave rise to the idiom "sa shou jian (撒手鐧, lit. 'cast away jian')" that later corrupted into "sha shou jian (殺手鐧, lit. 'killing hand jian', also translated as 'assassin's mace')".[4]
Jian is functionally similar to Chinese whip, a type of blunt weapons in tubular shapes.[1]
Gallery
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Truncheon of Chancellor Li Gang, Song dynasty
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See also
Look up 鐧 in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
References
- ^ a b "Chinese Whip / Truncheon". chineselongsword.
- ^ "Chinese Sword Breaker". Reliks.
- ^ "A Chinese sword breaker (jian)". mandarinmansion.
- ISBN 978-93-85563-03-4.